VIDEO [CC] - Deaf Artist and Photographer, Jennifer Tandoc of Philippines.
Jennifer Tandoc is a professional artist, photographer and very talent that strives to create art that represents the Deaf community.
Tandoc says "Over the years, My art work has drawn a lot of positive attention. One of my dream is to become famous and successful as an artist and also, I fell in love with photography the minute my Dad gave me an old Kinolta Minolta. Photography became my passion!"
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Filmed and Edited by Danielle Graybill.
The Daily Moth is a new ASL radio show, delivers news in video using ASL. The Deaf host, Alex Abenchuchan, covers trending news stories and Deaf topics. The video shows of artist and photographer Jennifer Tandoc, each piece of art takes hours and hours of work. There's something hidden in all of her designs.
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Check out and LIKE her artist page and LIKE her photography page. Jennifer Tandoc Artist and Photographer! Visit her site: http://jtandocphotography.com Related Posts:
VIDEO [CC] - Nyle DiMarco: "My Upbringing With My Deaf Family"
Nyle DiMarco does not consider himself to be disabled by deafness and sees his media profile as an opportunity to bring awareness to Deaf culture. He views deafness as an advantage in modeling because he is accustomed to conveying messages without speaking. He also holds the belief that Deaf roles should be played by Deaf actors.
Fact: DiMarco have over 25 Deaf members in his family. Yes, it is genetic; However only 10% are born to Deaf parents. Come and meet his family and learn what Nyle do everyday and with his activism for #DeafTalent. ASL vlog with closed captions.
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This video exists because last year I was named "BeYoutiful" by a Deaf owned company, Convo.
DiMarco is a spokesperson for LEAD-K (Language Equality and Acquisition for Deaf Kids). He is also a signer and creative collaborator on The ASL App, an app that teaches conversational ASL.
In 2016, DiMarco started The Nyle DiMarco Foundation. It is a non-profit organization with the purpose of providing more access to resources for Deaf children and their families.
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf Parents learn they will be grandparents for the first time goes viral on the Internet.
A Deaf couple in Michigan receive gift bags from their daughter and her husband in Florida containing a framed ultrasound of their first baby that is on the way. While connected over FaceTime, their heartwarming reactions are captured on camera. What a special moment!
Kimberly Lynn, sister and her husband live in Florida and their Deaf parents live in Michigan. They are expecting their first baby in June and wanted to make the moment special.
They invited them to her house for dinner, set up a face-time with Kristy and Timmy, and then gave them gift bags that contained a framed ultrasound.
VIDEO [CC] - THIS IS NORMAL - A short film about being Deaf, being hearing, and being human.
THIS IS NORMAL is about a young Deaf woman named Gwen who undergoes an experimental medical procedure that is supposed to 'cure' her of her deafness and give her the ability to hear. Despite the controversy, Gwen risks her friends, culture, and identity to discover the answer to the question, 'Is it worth giving up who you've been for the 'maybe' you could BECOME?'
VIDEO: The ASL vlog covers explored the issues between Language People, Inc. and DeafNation run by the Barish brothers.
FREDERICK, MD -- The video producer by openly Deaf Gay Ricky Taylor aka Ridor9th, also known as one of the most controversial bloggers in the Deaf community, share and explore the issues between Language People, Inc. and DeafNation run by the Barish brothers. Check it out the documents. Corruption and deception must end. Where is community accountability?
VIDEO [CC] - Share: Debunking myths about Deaf people by Rikki Poynter.
A Deaf activist and Youtuber Rikki Poynter discussion and conversation questions about the Debunking myths about Deaf people these today - closed captioned.
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Loud sound coming near the end. You've been warned. Also, thanks, Bobby, for helping me with the driving scene! http://sullyzenphoto.com
The CSD has made a commitment to be a Deaf centered environment in which the design of learning and the language of instruction are consistent with a Bilingual-Bicultural approach to educating Deaf children.
The school values itself as a multi-cultural community of varied ethnic backgrounds through which people are able to learn and work together to promote the academic, linguistic, vocational, cultural, social, emotional and physical development of Deaf children. The involvement of parents, students, staff, the Deaf community, the business community and the community at large is regarded as essential to the mission of the school.
A safe, academic, Deaf-centered culture is nurtured at CSD. Dedication to students is the hallmark of CSD staff. Visit CSD website, http://csdeagles.com
Thank you to Dyer Art Center & SLT for your support from the National Technical Institute of the Deaf and community in America.
A new version "#Whereisthelove" by The Black Eyed Peas featuring The World was released on August 31, 2016, in collaboration with a great number of artists within the music industry. The proceeds of the charity single will go to educational programs.
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Hurricane Matthew approaching South Carolina, Haley's sign language interpreter's flair gains attention of social media.
COLUMBIA, SC -- WLTX: For the last several days, standing inches away from South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley at her emergency briefings, you've likely seen Jason Hurdich.
He's the sign language interpreter who's just off to the side of the governor when she's speaking. Even though the New York native has only been in South Carolina for two months, it's his job is to make sure that everyone watching understands Hurricane Matthew's potential impact on South Carolina.
"A storm is very serious so I need to make sure that i am culturally matching what the Deaf community needs when they get their information," he said.
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He's been interpreting for about 15 years. But as you're listening to the governor and watching Hurdich interpret for the Deaf community, he's watching Shonna McGee.
"I've worked with Jason for over 10 years and what I do in situations like this is I take the spoken information and I interpret it to him, and he clarifies and expands when necessary for the Deaf community to have clarity."
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Hurdich is Deaf, so in this situation, the interpreter has an interpreter. So he translates what McGee hears.
It's a unique situation which means critical information doesn't get lost in translation for the Deaf community.
"Having someone who is a native to your language, giving them the information in their language is always the best, especially in critical situations like a hurricane," McGee said.
"My goal is really to empower the Deaf community to really thrive and encourage them to do that and improve their quality of life," Hurdich said. "The South Carolina Deaf community really needs Deaf leaders and nationwide also."
Interpreting is not Hurdich's full time job. he currently works as a counselor for vocational rehab in Charleston.
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Deaf Grassroots Movement and National Association of the Deaf as the partners for Deaf Rights in the United States.
WASHINGTON -- Get outside and find a street corner on October 20th! Fight for our rights for access, education, and employment. Last week, the Deaf Grassroots Movement (DGM) and the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) met via videoconference.
We talked about how we can work together, build a relationship between DGM and NAD, and identify our plans for the future. The primary focus of our discussion was about October 20th. On that day, in 85 cities across America, people will stand at a street corner with signages to bring attention to three important issues for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community: access, education, and employment.
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Howard - DGM and the NAD work together and support each other. Allow me to explain how. The NAD has always met with the federal government to discuss various issues including education, employment, and access. While such discussions are productive, sometimes we get nowhere. Thanks to DGM’s movement and making noise about our needs, the federal government reached out the NAD recognizing the their actions. This helps the NAD continue the dialogue we want to have with the federal government. I am very appreciative of the work DGM has done to support the rights of deaf and hard of hearing people.
So, October 20th is a very important day! You can get involved by looking for the DGM Facebook page in your state, and find out details about October 20th. You can join for an hour, a few hours, or all day! Your time contributed to this movement will have an impact across the country! This movement will occur every now and then, not just October 20th, so we can remain visible and bring attention to the community including the politicians. We want them to know that we are still here!
VIDEO [CC] - What ‘Deaf’ means to me with Amanda McDonough.
Deaf activist, actress and Youtuber Amanda McDonough discussion and conversation questions about "What "Deaf" Means to Me" she wanted to talk about something she have been thinking a lot about recently and that is the word "DEAF." Now she grew up in hearing culture in the United States.
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I grew up with hearing family, hearing friends, going to a mainstream school and I didn't have access to signing. I didn't have access to Deaf people and... So, growing up for me that word "DEAF" scared me, because for me, before, that meant that I was going to lose my hearing. That meant that I was going to lose access to oral communication. That meant I might lose my family and my friends. That was scary for me. It was really scary. And it wasn't until after I became physically Deaf that I started searching for people like me and I started searching for a better way to communicate. And I found that in Deaf Culture, in sign language, in the Deaf community.
Now that i am a proud Deaf woman that word death means something so different to me. So, I wanted to share with you what word "DEAF" means to me now.
Now the word "DEAF" means strength. It means having the strength to accept yourself for who you really are. It also means support; having the support of the Deaf community. Having people around me that understand what i go through every single day, all of my struggles. They understand me, they really understand. It also means communication, because now I have this beautiful language that I can always understand I don't have have to struggle with and I have access to communication through new technology like VoIP and oh captioned phones. Different things that help me communicate better. It also, lastly, means intelligence. Why? Because deaf people; we have to be able to think creatively. We have to be able to think outside the box so that we can create new solutions to problems that we have, that don't depend on hearing, and that takes intelligence. So, this is what my new meaning of the word "DEAF" is.
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Gallaudet University celebrates the first Deaf woman to serve as its president in the United States history.
WASHINGTON -- USA Today: About two weeks after she arrived on the campus of Gallaudet University last January, Roberta Cordano learned how the place works: The blizzard known as “Snowzilla” hit, knocking out power to much of the campus.
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Cordano, the school’s incoming president, invited 13 families to stay in her on-campus house overnight, where the next morning they produced a huge communal meal. When students realized that a school-issued emergency message didn’t include an American Sign Language (ASL) version, they produced one themselves, complete with captions.
“They really set the gold standard for establishing bilingual communication,” Cordano said. “There is no other place that I have experienced that would just delve into something, take care of things, figure it out.”
On Friday, Cordano’s appointment becomes official as Gallaudet, the world's only liberal arts university for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, inaugurates her as its first Deaf female president.
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The move follows decades of political upheaval at the school, where over the past 30 years students have fought to give Deaf educators and students more control.
Established during the Lincoln administration in 1864, Gallaudet didn’t get its first Deaf president until the Reagan administration, 124 years later, in 1988 and only after raucous protests closed down the campus. The “Deaf President Now” protests, stretching over eight days, forced Gallaudet's board to name its first Deaf president, I. King Jordan, who served for 18 years.
In 2006, more protests erupted after the board named Provost Jane Fernandes to replace Jordan. As in 1988, students blocked the main gates of the campus, and “Deaf President Now” morphed into “Better President Now.” Though all three finalists in 2006 were Deaf, students feared that Fernandes might not be their strongest advocate. Some wanted a candidate who had grown up Deaf and relied solely on ASL - Fernandes had learned to sign when she was young and could communicate well by speaking or by signing, The Washington Post reported at the time. The board eventually named Robert Davila to replace Jordan.
The power struggles are actually the natural result of the linguistic issues the Deaf community has experienced for more than a century, Cordano said.
“It took 100 years here in the (United) States until American Sign Language was recognized as a language, just like English, having its own grammatical structure, its own rules, all the linguistic markers you would find in any other language,” she said. “What’s fascinating is that it took 100 years for us to change the perspective from, ‘Oh, it’s just a bunch of gestures,’ to actually seeing it’s a legitimate language.”
From there, she said, it was a short step to political activism and a push for self-determination. Understanding Deaf Culture, she said, made outsiders realize that Deaf people have something worth protecting: “If you have a language, then surely there must be a culture - there must be literature. And of course we realized the Deaf community has culture and literature and storytelling. And from there that’s been followed by the civil rights movement.” ... Read More at USA Today.
VIDEO [CC] - Watch the inspirational videos of celebrates International Week of the Deaf, "With Sign Language, I am Equal" from the Deaf Community.
WFD HELSINKI -- International Week of the Deaf (IWD) is celebrated annually by Deaf people worldwide during the last full week of September. World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)’s 133 national associations of the Deaf organise this year's theme is "With Sign Language, I am Equal" events, marches, debates, campaigns and meetings to highlight specific human rights topics that merit attention by local and national governmental authorities, including decision makers, members of the general public and media.
International Week of the Deaf is about gathering together, becoming united, and showing that unity to the rest of the world. This celebration also increases solidarity among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people and their allies, and is used as a way to stimulate greater efforts to promote the rights of Deaf and HoH people.
International Week of the Deaf activities also welcome the involvement of parents and families of Deaf people, interpreters, professionals who work with Deaf people and government officials - SignTv Deaf News.
First launched in 1958 in Rome, Italy, International Week of the Deaf takes place annually on the last week of September. A truly global event, International Week of the Deaf is the only week in a year that sees highly concerned global advocacy to raise awareness about the Deaf community on different levels.
International Week of the Deaf 2016 - Doctors and Accessibility in English Subtitles - The Deaf group made this film for International Week of the Deaf focusing on the subject of Accessibility and Doctors issues in the Deaf community.
The Day of Deaf in Batticaloa from Lankasri News - To provide for the rights of the week local Deaf community rally in the country of Sri Lanka.
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Deaf school children in Texas use sign language to paint a powerful portrait of what happened on Sept. 11.
USA Today - Teaching 9/11: “To them, it’s history, just like Pearl Harbor,” said Chris Causey, a middle school educator in Robertson County, Tenn. So, as the memories fade, teachers feel challenged to teach 9/11 in some way that is relevant to all ages in the United States.
In some schools in New Jersey, third graders learn about the K9 rescue teams while 12th graders discuss methods of prisoner interrogation. In Tennessee, older students at Stratford High School conduct a mock rescue at the World Trade Center; others arrange their desks like the seats of an airplane while Williamson County social studies teacher Kenneth Roeten asks students about their everyday morning routines and compares them to headlines just before the attacks.
Deaf school children in Texas use sign language to paint a powerful portrait of what happened on Sept. 11.
“I personally cannot think of any other event in American history that has had more of an impact on how everyday Americans live their life,” Roeten wrote in an email. “It has had a profound impact on my life; therefore, I believe it to be my duty as an educator to never stop teaching the shock, horror, sadness and utter disbelief of that day.”
But how? That's what school systems around the country are wrestling with now.
“I don’t think there’s a school system that has said ‘We’re going to focus on this,'” said Colleen Tambuscio, a teacher at New Milford High School in New Jersey who helped write a 9/11 curriculum through the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education in collaboration with the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in Manhattan. “I think what has happened in New Jersey - we’ve had moments of silence; we’ve had commemorative acts that were important. But now we should be getting into the educational piece, where we’re doing more with the education. That’s the trajectory.”
The lessons from the curriculum Tambuscio helped write include political and religious discussions; the history and present state of Islamic extremists; the global impact of the day economically; the ensuing wars; the backlash against Muslims; the change in day-to-day security and privacy implications; the huge personal tragedy; as well as stories of the first responders, extraordinary acts by ordinary citizens and the mission of service many felt afterward... Reaf The Full Story.
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Students face challenges as Kirsten Pribula talks about her experiences of being Deaf on campus in the United States..
ATHENS, OH -- The Post: At age 23, Kirsten Pribula heard a water sprinkler for the first time. She stood in the middle of College Green for a few minutes trying to preserve the moment and remember the sound.
Pribula lost her hearing between the ages of 3 and 4 due to autoimmune inner ear disease. AIED is a progressive hearing loss condition caused when the immune system attacks the inner ear, according to the American Hearing Research Foundation.
Pribula underwent cochlear implant surgery - a surgery where a device that improves hearing is placed in the inner ear - when she was 8 years old. The surgery allows her to hear partially, but Pribula still relies heavily on lip reading and interpreters, she said.
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In group conversations, Pribula said she often needs an interpreter because it is hard to keep up with the back-and-forth nature of the setting.
“But with one-on-one conversations, I do really well because … I can read lips well,” Pribula said.
Despite the problems she faces because of her hearing loss, she still chose to come to Ohio University. Pribula was also looking at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the only university in the nation designed specifically to eliminate barriers for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, but Gallaudet did not offer Pribula the major she wanted to pursue.
Pribula, a junior studying graphic design, thought she was the only student who is Deaf on campus, but according to Carey Busch, the assistant dean of student accessibility, there are between 15 and 18 students on Ohio University’s Athens campus that are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The group makes up less than one-tenth of a percent of the campus’ student population.
Although Pribula often feels overlooked by the general student body, there are some offices at OU actively working to accommodate students, who are Deaf, in and out of the classroom... Read The Full Story.
VIDEO [ASL] - Ricky Taylor aka Ridor9th' share thoughts - Job discrimination rampant in Deaf people's lives.
FREDERICK, MD -- The video producer by openly Deaf Gay Ricky Taylor aka Ridor9th, also known as one of the most controversial bloggers in Deaf community, shares on social media in American Sign Language covers the latest tidbits focusing on this vlog talks about job discrimination being rampant in Deaf people's lives in 2010s in the United States and around the world.
VIDEO [CC] - Watch the hilarious 30 seconds footage Deaf versus Hearing "Reaction to the Light Flashing" in English Subtitles.
A newest Youtuber Da So Em is an inspiring thoughts within both of awareness and culture and she sharing the 30 seconds comedy footage about differences between Deaf and Hearing people when reaction to the light flashing.
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VIDEO [CC] - Watch the hilarious 40 seconds footage Deaf Versus Hearing "Eat And Talk" in English Subtitles.
A newest Youtuber Da So Em is an inspiring thoughts within both of awareness and culture and she sharing the 40 seconds comedy footage about differences between Deaf and Hearing people when eating and talking in the same time.
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A man sits on an antique sofa, in front of a window. A small transparent NAD logo appears on bottom right.
LINSAY: There are many interesting Deaf people and among them, I’d like to tell you about one person in particular -- Melville Ballard. He was born in Maine and since he was Deaf, there were no known educational institution for Deaf children nearby. When he was eleven years old, he was informed that there was a Deaf school in Hartford. He enrolled and after nine years, Ballard completed his education. The school asked him to become a teacher there. The Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Washington, D.C. asked him to teach there, Ballard accepted the offer and soon afterwards, the college for the Deaf was established. He decided to enroll there and after two years, he graduated. Afterwards, he went back to teaching and did so for over fifty years! While he was teaching, Ballard along with a few others, founded a newspaper for Deaf people. The paper was called The Silent World. Ballard was actually one of the participants at that conference in Milan, Italy in 1880. Oh, here's another interesting fact about Ballard -- Congressman James Garfield, who later became the President of the U.S., corresponded with the French Emperor Louis Napoleon Bonaparte III, who communicated in French. The Congressman needed somebody to help him with the translation so he used Ballard, who was fluent in English, French, and Latin, to help with the translations. With Ballard's help, Garfield was able maintain his communications with the French Emperor. So, that is what I wanted to share with you today.
Jennifer Tandoc is a professional artist, photographer and very talent that strives to create art that represents the Deaf community.
